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Archive for June, 2015

Camera Raw 9.1 is now available through the update mechanism in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC.

As mentioned here, updates to Camera Raw for Photoshop CS6 only include new camera support, lens profile support, and bug fixes. The new features listed in the release notes are only available in Photoshop CC.

New Features

Dehaze

Many outdoor scenes have some amount of haze due to atmospheric conditions. Dehaze is a new feature for removing/adding haze and fog from pictures.

The user can control how much haze to remove by adjusting a new slider in the Effects panel in the Dehaze section. This feature can also be used in the other direction to increase the amount of haze.

Recommended Workflow – Adjust the white balance of the image before applying the Dehaze control.

Local White and Black Adjustment Sliders

Available with all 3 local adjustment tools: Gradient Filter, Radial Filter and Local adjustment brush

Useful for fine-tuning tonality near the brightest and darkest parts of the picture. For instance, they can be used to increase the contrast of highlights.

Recommended Workflow – Make your global adjustments first and then use the local adjustments to fine tune. Use the clip warning indicator to help avoid clipping highlights and shadows.

New Camera Support in Camera Raw 9.1

Fujifilm X-T10

Nikon 1 J5

Nikon D810A

Panasonic DMC-G7

Pentax K-S2

Pentax K3 II (*)

*Preliminary support. The multi-shot Pixel Shift Resolution and HDR features are still under investigation.

Lightroom CC 2015.1 and Lightroom 6.1 are now available on Adobe.com. The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom. Lightroom on iOS v1.5 is also now available.

Bug fixes, Tethered capture, new camera and lens support updates are available in both Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC.

Lightroom CC on the desktop

Dehaze*

Many outdoor scenes have some amount of haze due to atmospheric conditions. Dehaze is a new feature for removing/adding haze and fog from pictures.

The user can control how much haze to remove by adjusting a new slider in the Effects panel in the Dehaze section. This feature can also be used in the other direction to increase the amount of haze.

Recommended Workflow – Adjust the white balance of the image before applying the Dehaze control.

Local White and Black Adjustment Sliders*

Available with all 3 local adjustment tools: Gradient Filter, Radial Filter and Local adjustment brush

Useful for fine-tuning tonality near the brightest and darkest parts of the picture. For instance, they can be used to increase the contrast of highlights.

Recommended Workflow – Make your global adjustments first and then use the local adjustments to fine tune. Use the clip warning indicator to help avoid clipping highlights and shadows.

* Please note that these features are not available in the standalone version of Lightroom 6.1.

Lightroom on iOS:

Video support: You can now import, and sync your iPhone and iPad created videos from Lightroom on iOS to the web and desktop.

More adjustment tools

Vignettes

Adjust the Color channel and B&W mix

Tone Curve

New Camera Support

Fujifilm X-T10

Nikon 1 J5

Nikon D810A

Panasonic DMC-G7

Pentax K-S2

Pentax K3 II (*)

* Preliminary support. The multi-shot Pixel Shift Resolution and HDR features are still under investigation.